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Show HN: The wave method of building color palette
- tobr 7y agoPlayed with the controls and skimmed the article. I’m missing some practical rationale for this, if there is one. Is there a reason to expect that what we find harmonious in sound would apply to color as well? I can’t say I find the color palettes generated by the tool particularly appealing.
- exwog 7y agoThis is an assumption. The color palette is harmonious, in my opinion. When we built the palette only by wavelength, the results were excellent. But theory and computation still require refinement. We are working in this direction.
- tobr 7y agoSight and hearing are completely different. We have high resolution in perception of audible frequencies, but perceive color in three wide bands. This means that resonance and overtones in sound can be perceived in a way they can't with light. The whole premise seems conceptually flawed to me. It’s like attempting to play a chord progression by passing white noise through a three band equalizer.
- exwog 7y agoWe perceive color in three wide stripes only at first. As a result, we perceive one resulting color. By mixing red and green, for example, we get yellow. Drawing a parallel with the music, we focus on the feeling of perception (the resulting color).
- exwog 7y agoI will try to explain why we take the resulting color. On the example of the same yellow color. We can get it both in pure form and in mixed form (green and red). But for us it will be the same yellow color. And it will also be in harmony with black (for example).
- exwog 7y agoFound an bug in my algorithm. Fix on site. The update in the mobile application will be within a week.
- exwog 7y agoAnd one more update.